My theory about guns in Firefly
POSTED BY: Ringwraith
UPDATED: Thursday, January 2, 2003 01:21
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I suspect the energy would better be used to launch a projectile, rather than initiate a laser pulse. The interface would eat up much of the energy.
Jeff
Who suspects kinetic energy weapons will be around a long time.
I suspect you're right about guns, but there are situations where a laser has advantages over bullets. Not to mention that we're talking about two different sorts of energy that aren't necessarily related and the fact that I was merely suggesting how lasers MIGHT work, not, in fact, espousing their use myself.
Twelve spheres of unendurable brightness spalled the velvety blackness of space.
The silence on Lester Tourville's flag bridge was absolute
And then the spell was broken as Shannon Foraker looked up from her console from where she had just sent a seemingly innocent command to the main computers of State Security's finest Superdreadnoughts.
"Oops." She said.
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From the episode SERENITY 1AGE00
Ok it took awhile before I could properly review Serenity for weapons. Hey, lots to do, including taking wife to Two Towers.
In the Serenity Valley battle scenes Zoe and Mal were carrying Heckler & Koch G36 Assault Rifles, some of the other troops were carrying AK-Ms, M-16s and the SA-80.
http://www.hecklerkoch-usa.com/pages/military/rncframeset.html
The big twin Anti-Aircraft machine guns were Soviet DShK 12.7mm heavy machineguns dating back to WWII. The US called them "fifty-one cals" using an ever so slightly larger bore than the US caliber "fifty."
The "Mole" was carrying three guns, he started with an Astra 400, aka Model 1921, a military pistol standard in the Spanish Army between the wars. Out of his bag he took a SIG-Sauer P229S target pistol and another medium automatic I couldn't identify.
http://www.sigarms.com/products/sportpistols-models.asp?product_id=46&
product_name=P229S
The P229S reappears later in the series in Jayne's arsenal.
In this episode Jayne was carrying that Hopkins and Allen with the universal sight rail and the gas cylinder previously spotted in the promotions.
Jeff Timm
Who notes this show is practice for firearms enthusiasts.
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